Pushing Buttons: Why I’m mourning the death of the true arcade game
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/sep/27/pushing-buttons-video-game-arcades
As a child living in Cheshire in the 1980s, I spent many happy summer days in the arcades along the Golden Mile in Blackpool. These vast cathedrals of leisure, their exterior walls covered in flashing multicoloured light bulbs, were crammed with the video games of the era. Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, HyperSports – all lined up in the semi-darkness beside 1970s light gun ranges, pinball machines and one-arm bandits. In the corner, there was always a bingo area, where pensioners in their best outfits sat in front of banks of glowing numbers, drinking 10p cups of tea, eyes down all day. But of course, I was here for the flashing, pinging, reverberating games that they disliked because the noise drowned out the bingo caller. Yet we all came back, day after day.
My readers, you know he is, an Englander when he is crying like a baby like that over that. What do you think is he privileged for being able to do that or what? Be gentle. He in mourning.
I will debut longer form personal, experiential, and spiritual essays next year. I want to continue to do meaningful work. Help me conquer those who steal life, labor and liberty. Thank you.
When I realized comedy can be described as the things I say and do as well as the things I don’t say and do, I knew it was for me. I was seeing and hearing all kinds of shit that couldn’t be happening in the dreams and the nightmare we call society. I believe they call that crazy. You don’t need any proof. Someone just has to appear to have more potential at succeeding than you and you can make shit up about them. Better than that, you can plot to make them what you say they are. There’s always a ridicule am yet to encounter and the punches just keep coming. It is no miracle I survived. I am now more than qualified to tell comedically twisted true tales as a part of the jazz music festival, half time music. half time comedy. it is hilarious. In fact it is now a comedic-jazz music festival. Your receipts for music by ril and the free books for life cause mean the world to me. Help achieve justice.
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